[5] She presented The Political Party, the channel's main weekend current affairs programme until the show was axed as part of wider cutbacks due to the station's financial situation, in March 2009.

[6] On 26 December 2009, Halligan famously disclosed during a TV3 news broadcast that the then Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan Jnr had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

[7] In September 2011, Halligan presented a three-part series on the rise and fall of Fianna Fáil, the party wiped out at the general election of the previous February.

[10] Witnesses, and there were plenty (including at least 20 journalists and RTÉ television cameras) said one of Kenny's political advisers, a Mark Kennelly, had aggressively "barged" across Halligan.

[19][20] Referring to the close proximity of her disclosure to the referendum seven days later, Halligan said she had intended to deal with the matter two weeks earlier, only to be delayed by the untimely death of her brother.